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NWOBHM: Never Mind The Bollocks

Paul Elliott, MOJO, February 2007

Threatened by punk, Led Zep, Sabbath and Purple came under fire in 1977. A year later Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon led a New Wave of British Heavy Metal that took punk on. And won…

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